Editing Nikola Tesla (section)

=== On religion ===
Tesla was raised an [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox Christian]]. Later in life he did not consider himself to be a "believer in the orthodox sense", said he opposed [[religious fanaticism]], and said "Buddhism and Christianity are the greatest religions both in number of disciples and in importance."<ref name="Viereck1937">{{cite web |title=A Machine to End War |url=https://www.pbs.org/tesla/res/res_art11.html |publisher=PBS.org |access-date=27 July 2012 |last=Tesla |first=Nikola |editor=George Sylvester Viereck |date=February 1937 |archive-date=20 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220120214740/https://www.pbs.org/tesla/res/res_art11.html |url-status=live }}</ref> He also said "To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end" and "what we call 'soul' or 'spirit,' is nothing more than the sum of the functionings of the body. When this functioning ceases, the 'soul' or the 'spirit' ceases likewise."<ref name="Viereck1937" />